Today’s Date: Svend sees the light of day

On this day in 1892, Svend Lauge Koch, one of Denmark’s most famous geologists and explorers, was born in Kærby near Kalundborg in west Zealand. Koch led a total of 24 government-funded expeditions to Greenland from 1920 to the late 1950s. Among his many discoveries was the oldest known tetrapod fossil in history during a three-year expedition from 1931-34.




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